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121 more police officers on West counties' streets
Western Daily Press
|November 24, 2025
THE public will see 121 more police officers on the frontline in Devon and Cornwall by April next year.
Many officers are being moved from specialist roles across the Devon and Cornwall constabulary to the frontline in a concerted effort to address vacant positions that have been left unfilled. It follows concerns raised by communities over a lack of police presence.
Chief constable of the force James Vaughan told a meeting of the Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Panel on Friday that the process had been “excruciatingly difficult” to ask some of his best specialist officers to go and help out their colleagues in neighbourhood and response and traffic roles. But he said it was his “overriding desire” to put people back on the frontline and rebuild neighbourhood policing.
This story is from the November 24, 2025 edition of Western Daily Press.
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